The Value of Adapters in a Software-Led World

While the role of software has been important to the technology world for a long time, the emerging Software-Defined Data Center, or what Wikibon calls “Software-Led Infrastructure”, highlights the importance of code over boxes. Sheet metal, ports, and devices don’t go away, but as more products are made up of commodity or off-the-shelf components, the […]

Rack Level Architectures and Hyperscale Operations

Last week at the Open Compute Summit Winter 2013 event, Facebook shared insight into its IT infrastructure. While hyperscale companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook are quite different from the typical enterprise, it is Wikibon’s belief that those companies are driving key changes to how infrastructure is consumed that will filter down to the service provider […]

Market Leader Under Attack: VMware

It is a time of transition for VMware, which is going through both a product line and management restructure. VMware’s recent revenue forecast led Wall Street to believe that the days of hyper-growth are over for the company. While competition is heating up, VMware is taking strong actions to fortify and focus on core positions […]

Wikibon IT Transformation Survey: 2012 is The Year of the Cloud

In May and June of 2012, the Wikibon community, in collaboration with SiliconAngle’s ServicesAngle, launched its inaugural IT Transformation Survey, targeted at a random sample of business technology professionals drawn from the Wikibon community. After an initial outreach to the Wikibon practitioner community via email, social media was used to solicit respondents. We received 261 responses, the vast majority of which came from the Wikibon email outreach. A number of respondents chose not to answer every question, and we have specified the number of responses for each question.

The survey was completed over the Internet using a SurveyMonkey Web questionnaire with an incentive drawing for an iPad. Thanks to everyone who participated and congratulations to the iPad winner, Oscar Abundes, an IT practitioner and Enterprise Systems Integration Engineer at a major U.S. energy company.

Wikibon User Survey: EMC and NetApp Dominate VMware Storage

In 2010 Wikibon performed a meta-analysis on IDC and ESG data to look at the fast-growing area of storage on VMware. Wikibon members were uncomfortable with the small size of the ESG survey (n=102), and with the level of knowledge of the respondents on storage issues.

This year Wikibon has done its own much larger survey and ensured it was aimed on VMware experts.